It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.